Open deepbluev7 opened 2 years ago
This was chosen deliberately to avoid having to download & re-upload the media, potentially consuming significant bandwidth
You can still reuse the media when going unencrypted -> unencrypted, unencrypted -> encrypted and encrypted->encrypted. It however breaks other clients when going encrypted->unencrypted, especially if they don't support encryption yet. It is also very surprising for people why stuff like the TWIM bot doesn't work with forwarded images (since they usually don't even know about this limitation).
Steps to reproduce
Outcome
What did you expect?
The image should be sent as if I sent it into the unencrypted room in the first place.
What happened instead?
It is sent as an encrypted attachment. This means several clients can't or will refuse to decrypt the image. It also breaks bots and if you are trying to get around broken E2EE or someone not having E2EE, this is not possible using forwards because of this.
Operating system
Any
Browser information
Any
URL for webapp
app.element.io
Application version
1.11.5
Homeserver
any
Will you send logs?
No